María Rubio

María Rubio

Born: September 21, 1934
Died: March 1, 2018
in Tijuana - Baja California - Mexico
María de Jesús Rubio Tejero was a first Mexican actress. She is remembered for her impeccable portrayal of Catalina Creel in the highly successful telenovela Cuna de lobos in Mexico and Latin America. Additionally, People en Español magazine ranked it as one of the ten best soap operas. Catalina Creel has been a figure throughout the world as the best villain of all time.

Movies for María Rubio...

Title: El show: crónica de un asesinato
Character: Catalina Creel (archive footage)
Released: June 6, 2023
Type: TV
The murder of Paco Stanley, the most popular comedian on television in Mexico, unleashes a series of intrigues in the world of politics and entertainment. Through an in-depth investigation, the use of archival material of the time and the direct testimony of the main people involved in the case, this documentary series delves into the culture of show business and exposes the lies and tragedies that unexpectedly marked the arrival of democracy in Mexico in the year 2000.
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Some birds aren't mean to be caged
Title: Some birds aren't mean to be caged
Character: Adela
Released: January 1, 2016
Type: Movie
Manuel and Adela are not going through the best stage of their relationship. In a trip to Las Cañas lake they will meet Santi, a young bird spotter.
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The Simón's Jigsaw: A Trip to the Universe of Juan Piquer Simón
Title: The Simón's Jigsaw: A Trip to the Universe of Juan Piquer Simón
Character: Self
Released: October 17, 2015
Type: Movie
A journey through the work of Spanish filmmaker Juan Piquer Simón (1935-2011).
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Title: Una familia con suerte
Character: Inés de la Borbolla y Ruiz
Released: February 14, 2011
Type: TV
A Mexican telenovela based on the Argentinean telenovela Los Roldán.
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Title: Querida Enemiga
Character: Hortensia Vallejo Vda. de Armendáriz
Released: May 10, 2008
Type: TV
Querida Enemiga is a telenovela distributed by Televisa. It starts Ana Layevska, Gabriel Soto, Carmen Becerra and Jorge Aravena. The telenovela is a production of Lucero Suárez.
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Title: Las Dos Caras de Ana
Character: Graciela Salgado
Released: September 25, 2006
Type: TV
Las Dos Caras de Ana is a Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa and Fonovideo that debuted in 2006, starring: Ana Layevska and Rafael Amaya. The telenovela was made, filmed and set in Miami, Florida. The title is upon the phrase Las Dos Caras de Jano.
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Title: Salomé
Released: October 22, 2001
Type: TV
Salomé is a Mexican Telenovela that aired from October 22, 2001 until May 17, 2002, and it's starred Edith González and Guy Ecker.
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Title: Labyrinth of Passion
Character: Doña Ofelia viuda de Miranda
Released: October 4, 1999
Type: TV
Laberintos de pasión is a Mexican telenovela produced by Televisa in 1999. Starring Leticia Calderon, Francisco Gattorno, César Évora, in addition to the participation of Manuel Ojeda, Monika Sanchez and Azela Robinson.
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Title: Amor Gitano
Character: Isolda
Released: June 1, 1998
Type: TV
En un lejano pasado donde las injusticias son pan de cada día, Rodolfo Farnesio, vil señor feudal, se dispone a exigir su "derecho a la pernada" sobre una campesina y para eso irrumpe en la boda de la muchacha. Pero sus planes son interrumpidos por la llegada del noble Renzo el Gitano. Pronto Renzo se verá obligado a defender a otra víctima de Farnesio. Se trata de la Condesa Adriana de Astolfi que está siendo forzada a casarse con el villano. Para deshacerse del gitano, Rodolfo lo acusa de un crimen que no ha cometido y hace que lo deporten a la Isla de los Condenados, una infecta isla-prisión. Allá lo sigue Adriana, que bajo la personalidad de "Luna" podrá amarlo libremente. Pero nuevamente, Rodolfo se interpone y los separa. Adriana, ahora amnésica, se convertirá en la esposa de Rodolfo. Tendrá que regresar Renzo, bajo otra identidad, para rescatarla de Rodolfo y de la ex tabernera Isa Valenti quien, a base de chantajes, se ha convertido en la cuñada de Adriana.
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Fuera de la ley
Title: Fuera de la ley
Character: Ana Contreras (Segment "Los Satánicos"
Released: May 8, 1998
Type: Movie
Four raw stories about justice and law.
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Title: Amada enemiga
Character: Reinalda Proal
Released: August 18, 1997
Type: TV
Amada Enemiga is 1997 Mexican telenovela, starring Dominika Paleta, Susana Dosamantes and Enrique Ibáñez. It was produced by Televisa. This telenovela contained 80 episodes.
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Title: Crystal Empire
Character: Livia Arizmendi de Lombardo
Released: August 29, 1994
Type: TV
Imperio de Cristal is a Mexican telenovela that aired on Televisa in 1994 with 124-episode from the plot to the main cast it was officially first launched on Monday, 29 August 1994 & ceased transmission on Friday, 17 February 1995 was aired runtime of 45-minutes with commercial on weekday at 21:00 to 22:00 CST/22:00 to 23:00 MST/23:00 to 00:00 PST.
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Traficantes de Niños
Title: Traficantes de Niños
Released: May 29, 1992
Type: Movie
Film about child trafficking in México.
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Con el amor no se juega
Title: Con el amor no se juega
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
Susana, a beautiful young girl living in 1990, is happily looking forward to her forthcoming marriage - and has bought an antique mirror to grace her future home. Three weeks before the wedding, the mirror is delivered to her Grandmother's home and taken to Susana's room. Later that day, when looking into the glass, Susana is startled to see the image of a handsome soldier, Nicolas (from 1863), instead of her own reflection. It soon becomes obvious that he can see Susana as clearly as she can see him - and life, for them both, is never quite the same again. Contains three shorts as a trilogy: The Two Way Mirror (El espejo de dos lunas) 1990, 0:29:23 With You from a Distance (Contigo en la distancia) 1991, 0:27:38 Saturday Night Thief (Ladrón de sábado) 1996, 0:24:57
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Vivir o morir
Title: Vivir o morir
Character: Tere
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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Diabolical Vengeance
Title: Diabolical Vengeance
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
Mexican revenge horror.
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Title: Den of Wolves
Character: Catalina Creel de Larios
Released: October 13, 1986
Type: TV
Cuna de lobos is a Mexican soap opera produced by Televisa and broadcast by Canal de las Estrellas in 1986 to 1987. The serial, about the struggle for power within a wealthy Mexican dynasty, was enormously popular in its native Mexico. It was also a hit in several foreign countries, including the United States, Germany and Australia. The soap opera starring antagonistically María Rubio as the main villain interpreting the evil "Catalina Creel", with Gonzalo Vega, Diana Bracho, Alejandro Camacho and Rebecca Jones.
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El caso de las envenenadas de Valencia
Title: El caso de las envenenadas de Valencia
Character: Aurelia
Released: April 12, 1985
Type: Movie
Valencia, 1955. A down-on-her-luck spinster poisons her friend and employers out of envy.
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Valentina
Title: Valentina
Character: Valentina adulta
Released: November 12, 1982
Type: Movie
In 1939, in a French prison camp, José Garcés of the defeated Spanish Republican army raises the spirits of his fellow prisoners by telling the story of the year he was 8 years old, 1911, in a small town in northeastern Spain. He was a rascal, baffling his father, always in trouble, and in love with Valentina, a neighbor girl. On his roof top at night he sends semaphore messages to her. He writes poems. He gets them into trouble, killing her father's breeding pigeons. When the two families camp at a decaying castle, his tutor, a sympathetic priest, tells him about the most valiant men, the saints, the heroes, and the poets. Already a poet, he learns a lesson about being a hero.
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Murder in the Central Committee
Title: Murder in the Central Committee
Character: Agente soviética
Released: August 16, 1982
Type: Movie
The plot follows a private detective, an ex communist and former CIA agent, who travels from Barcelona to Madrid to discover the identity of the assassin of the leader of the Spanish Communist party who was stabbed during a blackout while presiding over a meeting of the party's central committee. The film is a thriller with ironic political overtones.
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Las trampas del matrimonio
Title: Las trampas del matrimonio
Released: April 19, 1982
Type: Movie
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Bloody Moon
Title: Bloody Moon
Character: Countess Maria Gonzales
Released: March 27, 1981
Type: Movie
Miguel, a horribly disfigured young man, goes on a rampage at a masquerade party and rapes and then mutilates a girl. Institutionalized at a mental asylum, he is released five years later, into the care of his sister, Manuela who, along with their wheelchair bound mother operates a boarding school for young women. Miguel becomes obsessed with one of the girls at the school, and wants to resume his incestuous relationship with his sister.
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Perché non facciamo l'amore
Title: Perché non facciamo l'amore
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
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Monstroid
Title: Monstroid
Released: July 11, 1980
Type: Movie
A rural Colombian village is attacked by a horrible sea serpent, aroused by industrial pollution of a nearby lake. Based on a real event that took place in June of 1971.
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El rediezcubrimiento de México
Title: El rediezcubrimiento de México
Released: September 12, 1979
Type: Movie
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forty years without sex
Title: forty years without sex
Character: Emilia
Released: February 12, 1979
Type: Movie
Through various episodes we are shown sexual repression and desire at the same time, in the Spanish of yesteryear.
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To Die... To Sleep... Perchance to Dream
Title: To Die... To Sleep... Perchance to Dream
Character: Mother
Released: August 24, 1976
Type: Movie
Given the proximity of death, the experiences of the past come to the memory of Juan. In a fragmented, sometimes confused way, Juan relives the crucial moments of his life, always linked to the names of women. Moments that remind him of having missed numerous opportunities to be happy.
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No One Will Love You Like I Do
Title: No One Will Love You Like I Do
Character: Madre Superior
Released: September 21, 1972
Type: Movie
A student-movement leftist becomes a nun and absorbs lots of deep, deep TV-movie spiritual lessons about God's glorious plan.
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A Secretary's Intimacies
Title: A Secretary's Intimacies
Released: November 4, 1971
Type: Movie
Mexican feature film
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Title: Muchacha italiana viene a casarse
Character: Elena Harrington
Released: June 10, 1971
Type: TV
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La noche violenta
Title: La noche violenta
Released: December 24, 1970
Type: Movie
Police are chasing him for a murder, so man breaks into an expensive home and takes husband and wife hostage. The bloodshed continues...
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El hijo de Huracán Ramírez
Title: El hijo de Huracán Ramírez
Character: La gringa
Released: August 25, 1966
Type: Movie
A wrestler is arrested on suspicion of assault, but his son manages to capture the real culprits.